St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-30
STREET CARS WANTED.
The Council Committee Has Lengthy
Debate Over Proposed Street Rail-
way Franchises
Aid. Kahn Puts in Word for the Maria
Avenue Line--Selby Avenue
Cable.
What Attorney Horn Has to Say On
Behalf of the Railway Com
pany.
Letter From MIR. Goodrich on the
West Side Lines--The Smoke
Ordinance.

At a protracted meeting of the council
committee on streets last night. the new
smoke ordinance requiring every smoke
stack to have smoke consumer was the
subject of lively discussion. Aid. Kenny
was on hand with his objection. He said:
If the ordinance is adopted it VIII do no
good. ana it can't be enforced. ] will give
Sl,OUO myself to any man who will get up Il
successful smoke burner that Will last six
months. They have been trying 1t for 800
years in Glasgow and London, and haven /
made it work. Why, man could get
Mathematician subscription out of
the Pittsburg people who would in
vent some way to abate the
nuisance. Looks to me like this was a scheme
to sell somebody's patent smoke consumer.
Aid. Culen--Wel they enforce the ordl-
nance in Chicago, and il certainly does some
good there.
City Attorney Murray--The court house
viii be ruined in another year by the smoke
from the opera house furnaces.
Aid. Kenny-The cOloring on those stones
I'D the court house isn't caused by the smoke
at all. 1t is caused by the decayed vegetable
matter coming out of the stones.
Aid. Cullen ain willing to vote for thu
ordinance even if it don't amount TO any
thing.
Aid. Dowlau-That's the way feel about it,
w tOtC Wis tdhCli q uldJOitIy VI tiit
committee voted for favorable report. and
to prepare plat of the districts where the
enforcement will be necessary.
STREET RAILWAY ORDINANCE.
The ordinance granting the city railway
company the right to extend the Selby ave
mum cable line from Dale to ST. Adams
street, and on Sbley from Fourth to the
union depot, will be reported back to the
council with recommendation that it do
not pass. Aid. Petsrh was opposed. 81
would like to see the first cable line built
before we grant any more franchises" he
said.
Aid. Cullen-They are going to work at
once. / haven't doubt Of it,
Mi. Horn, the attorney for the city rail-
way company, was present, and gave the
additional assurance that the superinten-
dent, who had charge of the work, was
here. and there would be no delay. Aid
Petsch said he would vote against it
anyway, and he was supported by ma
jOrity of the committee. Aid. Kahn was
promptly on hand to back his resolution
requiring the company to build the Maria
avenue car line at once. Mr.. Horn mildly
assured the committee that if the resolution
was passed it would be imperative, because
the council had already ordered all the
tracks built that the law allowed-or rather
that the company was obliged to build
this season. He referred to Aid. Sanborn's
resolution ordering an extension of the
Ramsey street line.
Aid. Kain-l am glad AID Sanborn got his
order in, but want it understood that the
people in our end of the town have been i'm
posed upon long enough. They have given
the street railway company every opportun-
ity and every encouragement 10 build that
line and the company has done absn =
nothing. Now they come IN here to It
with plea that ii previous ordinance pas ed
by this council, prevents the' from
constructing this line for six months. l I'M
derstand the stockholders Of the city railway
company are st. Paul men, aud they ought
to have enough enterprise to build line on
Maria avenue, if they don't have to. / hope
this resolution will pass and we will test their
right to construct only half mile Of railway
every six months.
Mr.. James Middleton. at the head of a
delegation OF citizens from Dayton's bluff,
SAID:
We have had enough Of consultation with
Mr.. Lowry and his officials. He said before
the board of public works that he would not
promise to build that line this year. We
have been put off with promises long enough,
anyway. The thickly settled portions of the
bluff are mile and more from the nearest
ear line on Seventh street.
Aid. Cullen thought if the resolution
would be Imperative it had better not pass
Mr.. Horn suggested another conference be-.
tween the officials and the citizens; he
thought they could agree OH something
Then Aid. Kahn wanted the ordi-
nance Oh the cable line franchises put
before the committee again, with a pro-
visO that if the company would agree to
build the Maria avenue line, the council
would grant the franchise. Aid. Cullen
objected, and Aid. PetSch moved that the
resolution of Aid. Kahn be brought before
the council with favorable Endorsement
This was carried by close vote.